reprobation/reprimand/censure of nobility, also translated by Norman Davies as Test of Nobility was a legal procedure of the revocation of nobility in the Polish–Lithuanian...

royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The characteristics associated with nobility may...

Commission of the Nobility (French: Commission d'information et de liaison des associations nobles d'Europe, CILANE) is an organisation for cooperation of European...

Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total...

I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts federal...

called a prova di nobiltà, a "test of nobility". This was particularly required of Venetian colonial elite in outlying regions of the Venetian thalassocracy...

accepts a real duel. Each Duelist was given a rose crest ring by the End of the World. Utena also has a rose crest, but hers came from a prince she met...

a test of nobility is required by an organisation such as a nobility association or an order of chivalry. As official grants of hereditary nobility are...

This is a list of fictional nobility that have appeared in various works of fiction. This list is organized by noble rank and limited to well-referenced...

lowest grantable rank of nobility, and the basic unit of rank progression. For example, a yunjiwei who received another grant of yunjiwei became a jiduwei...

False titles of nobility or royal title scams are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without...

test may be administered verbally, on paper, on a computer, or in a predetermined area that requires a test taker to demonstrate or perform a set of skills...

McMahon, footballer (Middlesbrough FC) Trevor McMahon (born 1929), New Zealand Test cricketer Vincent McMahon (cricketer) (1918–1988), Australian cricketer Wade...

was a lady at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Anne Knollys was the third daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of the Royal Household (1514–1596)...

Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. At the age of 31, Reid was given medical charge of the Royal Household at Balmoral. Queen Victoria became...

home. Testing Flosi's nobility he went to him for help, and they arranged a final peace. Kári married Flosi's niece Hildigunn, who was the widow of Hoskuld...

Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1928. She was also Dame of Grace of the Order of Saint John (DGStJ) and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of the...

foreign monarchies and the nobility, based on the maintenance of the feudal regime. This alliance prevented the emergence of an active, enterprising bourgeoisie...

In the following January he was killed in an air accident while flight-testing the new Renard R.36 fighter. As a bobsledder he competed in the 1936 Winter...

the St. Louis Cardinals Otto Merz (1889–1933), chauffeur, race car driver, test driver and mechanic Otto Fahr (1892–1969), backstroke swimmer Christian Werner...

d'Olbreuse, a minor member of the French nobility and a Huguenot. George William (1624–1705), Duke of Bunswig. Henry IV of France, king of France. Louise de Coligny...

James II, effective head of the Catholic nobility, at whom it was largely aimed. In Scotland, a religious test was imposed immediately after the Reformation...

the nobility of the ideal", commenting that it is "clear that you have given deep and anxious thought", and others commending Hofmeyr's "removal of the...

This is an alphabetical list of major titles produced by Coronet Films, an educational film company from the 1940s through 1990s (when it merged with Phoenix...

camps where many died from starvation, abuse, exhaustion, or being used as test subjects in experiments. Property belonging to murdered Jews was redistributed...

member of the school's Motor Club, along with John Cunningham, who would later be famous as an RAF night fighter ace and test pilot. Towards the end of her...

played a part in the early development of television broadcasting. On 30 March 1930, experimental television tests were made there using thirty-line pictures...

descended from Chinese nobility. Special "commanderies of immigrants" and "white registers" were created for the massive number of Han Chinese immigrating...

chicaners, the subject of Rabelais' derision, were clerks tasked with the collection of ecclesiastical taxes from the minor nobility. In response, Panurge...

freedoms, and an extension of voting rights with literacy tests; it also provided for a selective land reform with the full abolition of the corvée. In January...